Easy Company

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Official Team Name

Easy Company

Team Aliases

Easy Co.

Status

Defunct

Identity

Public

Alignment

Good

Universe

Earth-One, New Earth

Base of Operations

European theater during World War II

Affiliations

Team Leader(s)

Sgt. Rock

Former Members
Bulldozer, Canary, Farmer Boy, Four-Eyes, Ice Cream Soldier, Jackie Johnson, Little Sure-Shot, Long Round, Short Round, Wildman, Worry Wart , Sunny, Wee Willie, Junior. Tag-A-Long Thomas, Vaughn, Tag-Along

Allies

Allied Powers: United States of America, United Kingdom, Russia, French Resistance

Enemies

Axis Powers: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan

Creators

Bob Haney, Ross Andru

First appearance

Our Army at War #81
(April, 1959)

It's never easy... for Easy.

-- Sgt. Rock

History

Easy Company is a United States Army unit made up of a disparate collection of individuals who managed to participate in every major action in the European Theatre of World War II. Each member of Easy Company have their own unusual nicknames, which their leader Sgt. Frank Rock explained that during battle, they would be required to do things their civilian identities might not be able to live with; once the war was over, the nicknames could be left behind once the soldiers resumed their civilian lives.^[1]

Easy Company itself is radically different from any other American military units in which one case, they allowed one African American member, Jackie Johnson, into their unit. A definite defiance of racial segregation policy of the Army.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

• Easy Company is not to be confused with the real life Easy Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Also known as the "Screaming Eagles" of the 101st Airborne Division.
  

Trivia

• There is a Pre-Crisis story where an amnesiac Superman travelled back in time by accident and briefly joined Easy Company under the name 'Tag-Along'. Upon regaining his memory, he faked his own death before returning discreetly to his own time.^[2]
• Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 141st Infantry.

See Also

• 432 Appearances of Easy Company
• 167 Images that include Easy Company
• Team Gallery: Easy Company
• Fan-Art Gallery: Easy Company

Links and References

• Discuss Easy Company on the forums 
• Easy Company (comics) at Wikipedia.org
• Toonopedia: Easy Company
• Fred Hembeck: Sgt. Rock and Easy Company
• Medical Review of Our Army at War #160, discusses racism and the character of Jackie Johnson
• The Racial Justice Experience: Diversity in the DC Universe: 1961-1979
  

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